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NASA is marveling over the Mars rover’s first photographs — grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft's white-knuckle plunge through the red planet's atmosphere.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg denied any suggestion that the recent drop in the number of stop-and-frisks conducted by police signaled an overall change in policy.

The NYPD is increasing its presence around Sikh temples across the city "as a precaution" as authorities seek a motive for the Wisconsin shooting that left seven people dead, including the suspect, and three others critically wounded in what police called an act of domestic terrorism.

The NYPD is increasing its presence around Sikh temples across the city "as a precaution" as authorities seek a motive for the Wisconsin shooting that left seven people dead, inclu...

New Yorkers got a middle of the street view of the urban jungle on Saturday. Summer Streets closed off an almost 7-mile stretch of road — from East 72nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge — to cars so that people could walk, run and play in the streets.

Police have arrested two 19-year-olds for allegedly shooting out of a Volkswagen Jetta in Brownsville, Brooklyn, last weekend and injuring six people, including a 2-year-old.

The NYPD’s use of the controversial tactic of stop-and-frisk dropped 34 percent between the first and second quarters of this year, according to police data.

Federal prosecutors are suing the city and the NYPD, claiming police officers who took leave for military service are being shortchanged on their pensions.

It's turning out to be one costly glitch. A technical problem that briefly threw dozens of stocks into chaos Wednesday will cost Knight Capital Group $440 million.

Rebecca Soni of Plainsboro, New Jersey, has won a gold medal in the Women's 200m breaststroke at the Olympics on Thursday, and set another world record in the process. Michael Phelps won a gold in the men's 200m individual medley, upping his career record medal haul to a record 20.

Work crews are setting up cones and preparing to fix a huge sinkhole that gaped open in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Wednesday night.

The man accused of killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Borough Park boy has been offered a plea deal, according to a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

Is New York the cultural capital of the world? The World Cities Culture Report, commissioned by the Mayor of London, takes a look at how 12 world cities compare in their cultural offe...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg may regularly call for stricter gun-control laws, but it’s not stopping the NYPD from selling its spent shell casings – not to a scrap metal company, but to a Georgia ammunition store.

As the Olympics moves toward the end of its first week, NBC's been reporting record television ratings. But Tuesday night, those ratings slipped. That might have been a result of the poor showing by the US men's gymnastics team. Or it might have something to do with how NBC is covering the games. 

The second of two New Jersey state troopers facing criminal charges stemming from a high-speed escort of luxury cars down the Garden State Parkway this past spring has turned himself in.

An increasing number of families entering New York City's homeless shelters are not from the city. According to city records, the number of out-of-town families applying for shelter has risen 48 percent over the past four years.

Six people, including two children, were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn Sunday evening.

A Long Island lab that is home to the only operating particle collider in the U.S. is opening its doors to the public.

A third man has been arrested in connection to the shootout last weekend that killed a 4-year-old boy.